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Palestinians burn tires at the border fence with Israel, east of Jabalia in the central Gaza city, during a protest on April 13, 2018. Several thousand Gazans gathered for a third consecutive Friday of mass protests along the border with Israel after violence in which Israeli forces have killed 33 Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Since then, he has been receiving treatment at Gaza City’s Shifa Medical Complex.

“After they fired gas bombs at us, I was paralyzed and couldn’t breathe. My eyes were burning,” Sharif said.

“Doctors later diagnosed me with a stomach ulcer,” he said. “For the next week, I couldn’t eat without vomiting.”

Activists, meanwhile, have posted footage online showing young protesters experiencing severe convulsions after having been exposed to the gas.

Since the border rallies began almost three weeks ago, at least 35 Palestinians have been killed -- while hundreds more have been injured -- by cross-border Israeli gunfire.

According to al-Qidra, most of these deaths were caused by exploding bullets.

The rallies are part of a six-week demonstration that will culminate on May 15. That day will mark the 70th anniversary of Israel's establishment -- an event Palestinians refer to as the “Nakba” or “Catastrophe”.

Demonstrators demand that Palestinian refugees be granted the “right of return” to their homes in historical Palestine from which they were driven in 1948 to make way for the new state of Israel.